Cardiss Collins: “I favor the bill as is written with one exception, that it does not contain full and open competition. Full and open…”

This is not the bill we had last year. This is a totally different bill than the bill we had last year. This is a new bill, as the gentleman very well knows. It just seems to me we cannot compare those two at this point in time.

The problem is, it is a new requirement because it is a new bill. I just wondered how it was going to all play out between now and October 1, 1995.

I wanted to tell the vice-chair of the committee we certainly have enjoyed the opportunity of working with him and found he was certainly eager to enable us to work with him on this very important issue, and we are glad we had comity in…

I must say how wonderful it has been to serve in this body since June 7, 1973. I have met so many wonderful people, all of you, in fact; and those here before, many of us got to know so very, very well. It has been a great experience. I…